Using my sparkling new JVC DV Camcorder, I managed to record this fantastic update on my little experiment!
Latest:
- A small little lady finger seems to be coming out
- I had moved the lights above the metal rack roof to make more space for the lady finger
- Tea strainer is not a problem after bi-weekly “scraping” heh
I am pretty happy with the growth progress with the lady fingers and the tea strainers does not caused much problems, anyone got their own little indoor aquaponic project such as mine? Do contact me if you have any questions
The video above is my latest update on my on going experiment on Indoor Aquaponic Growth System that supposedly able to grow vegetables indoor for personal consumption.
Observation is the “tea strainer” have have some problems letting the water through causing some flooding within the buckets, luckily my pump entrance is pointing upwards within the fish tank hence eliminated any kind of overflow in the above buckets.
The disappointing thing was the collapsed of multiple plants in the middle bucket that died in the “floods” and which I suspected to had melted away in the “tsunami” of water.
I had once witnessed a small dead molly fish being consumed by my “clean up crew” which are my healthy cherry shrimps within the fish tank, I think the molly fishes kept the population of the cherry shrimps in check but many of them now seems to be living happily with the fishes…weird.
I guess the molly fishes’ mouth are not wide enough to swallow an adult cherry shrimp hence leaving the shrimps alone…haha.
Next month after my reservist, I will probably move my experiments into the next level by making a MUCH more wider and Larger buckets hopefully to plant MORE vegetables enough to at least rotate the crops…and all indoors.
Pray hard, Iran won’t be attacked before I buy everything…or we can kiss our money goodbye….hyperinflation to come like “blink”…and WTF!
Today, I had upgraded the flow of water to using hose connectors.
This afternoon, I went to the local river (canal) near Lavender MRT to catch some Tilapia (aka Japanese fish) but unfortunately only caught some small common molly fish instead.
I had notice 3 dead Tilapia floated past me and I find it rather weird, it seems that the water may be too hot for them or because of the industrial waste?
Anyway, below is my latest video on the upgrade to my Aquaponic system since the last video.
This is a upgrade to my Aquaponic Growth System that I had posted in “My Project” page.
14 Feb 2009
Today I made a small innovation upgrade to my Aquaponic Indoor Grow System, I realized a very serious problem of small fishes or shrimps being sucked into the water pump…causing lot’s of pain both in my heart and pocket…($_$)
In order to reduce more unnecessary death I had decided to find a way to do the following requirements.
Water Pump remain powerful to suck up the fish waste as fertilizer to the plants above.
Today I will begin to set up an Indoor Hydroponic using a slightly modified design from garden girl tv version.
Firstly, I had mentally drawn up a plan and decide what items to purchase and the current design is to have a pump to pump water from the fish tank below up 2 meters to the highest point and let the water flow from right to left in a plastic grow tank before draining to another grow tank and down back to the fish tank.
This is what I had set up in 2 hours time for today
The following is the list of items that I had bought for this project
Metal rack that I had bought at SGD $148
Metal Racks that I need to install myself hee
Water pump motor and accessories with tubes and connectors at SGD $135.
Energy Saving Water Pump
Two IKEA Snail box at SGD $12 each
IKEA Snail Box
Two 55 Watt PL Lights for fish tank
I already have 3 x 2 feet fish tanks at home so I can re-use one of the fish tank for this project
The task for tomorrow is to drain my existing fish tank and catch the shrimps to migrate them to another fish tank which will take about forever haha!.
12 Feb 2009
I had finally finished catching all the cherry shrimps (hundreds of them) and migrated them to another fish tank.
Draining the tank makes the tank lighter for me to carry but it’s still straining my back slightly!
I almost hurt my back carrying it onto the bottom rack.
Adding the water must add a few drops of anti-chlorine solution to remove the chlorine from our tap water, using some “crystal clear” solution to make the dust settle down in the water I started to drill some holes at the bottom of the IKEA Snail Boxes.
Tied some raffia strings to the new 55 Watt Lights to the metal racks on top of the 2 snail buckets for growing the vegetables.
Lights Tied up & ready to grow stuff!!
I will be catching some Tilapia fish (aka Japanese fish) that shit a lot and put in the fish tank so I can use it’s fish waste as fertilizer for my vegetable plants.
